Mandi and I saw this great bucket list on another blog site and thought what a great idea! Here is our current list. I’m sure this list is going to grow, and grow, and grow. . .you get the idea. This is a lifetime bucket list so some items are from the past and some are for the future!
Ready, Set, Go!
National Parks
- See all the National Parks<✓AK - Mt McKinley/a>
- /Denali
- AK – Gates of the Arctic
- AK – Glacier Bay
- ✓AK – Katmai
- ✓AK – Kenai Fjords
- AK – Kobuk Valley
- AK – Lake Clark
- ✓AK – Wrangell St Elias
- AK – Yukon Charlie Rivers
- ✓AZ – Grand Canyon
- Hike the Grand Canyon rim to rim
- AZ – Petrified Forest
- AZ – Saguaro
- AR – Hot Springs
- CA – Channel Islands
- CA – Death Valley
- ✓CA – Joshua Tree
- CA – Lassen Volcanic
- CA – Pinnacles
- CA – Redwood (Mandi)
- CA – Sequoia (Mandi)
- CA – Kings Canyon
- CA – Yosemite
- Hike Half Dome
- ✓CO – Black Canyon of the Gunnison
- CO – Great Sand Dunes
- ✓CO – Mesa Verde
- ✓CO – Rocky Mountain
- ✓FL – Biscayne
- FL – Dry Tortugas
- ✓FL – Everglades
- ✓HI – Haleakala
- HI – Hawaii Volcanoes
- KY – Mammoth Cave
- ME – Acadia
- MI – Isle Royale
- MN – Voyageurs
- ✓MT – Glacier
- NV – Great Basin
- NM – Carlsbad Cavern (Mark)
- ND – Theodore Roosevelt
- OH – Cuyahoga Valley
- OR – Crater Lake
- SC – Congaree
- ✓SD – Badlands
- ✓SD – Wind Cave
- TN/SC – Great Smoky Mountains
- TX – Big Bend
- TX – Guadalupe Mountains
- ✓USVI – Virgin Islands
- UT – Arches
- ✓UT – Bryce Canyon
- UT – Canyonlands
- UT – Capitol Reef
- ✓UT – Zion
- VA – Shenandoah
- ✓WA – Mount Rainier
- ✓WA – North Cascades
- ✓WA – Olympic
- ✓WY – Grand Teton
- ✓WY – Yellowstone
- American Samoa
- Visit all National Parks in one year
International Travel
- ✓Visit Canada
- ✓Stand on Great Wall of China (Mandi)
- Stay at Atlantis resort in Nassau, Bahamas
- ✓Ride shark waterslide at Atlantis resort
- Visit Greece
- See where first Olympics were held
- Visit Israel
- Go winetasting in Italy
- Stay in an over the water hut
- Visit Australia
- Visit New Zealand
- Visit Fiji or Tahiti
US Travel
- ✓Travel to Alaska in RV
- ✓Make mixed drink from glacier ice
- Catch and eat a halibut
- Catch and eat a king salmon
- ✓See the Aurora Borealis (sounds better than Northern Lights)
- Visit New York
- See a play on Broadway
- Go on Hot Rod Power Tour (Mark)
- ✓Gamble in Las Vegas
- ✓Drive the Overseas Highway to Key West
- See a fish tossed in the Seattle Pike Place fish market
- Eat fresh lobster in Maine
- ✓See Plymouth Rock
- ✓Tour Alcatraz
- ✓Tour the White House
- Tour a US Mint
- ✓Go wine tasting in Napa and Sonoma (Mandi)
- See Statue of Liberty
- Ride Subway in New York
- ✓Take float plane trip in Alaska
- Snowshoe into a hut
Life Goals
- ✓Own a Corvette (Mark)
- Build a cabin in the mountains
- ✓Own an RV
- ✓Start a business
- ✓Pay off ALL debt, including mortgage
- ✓Earn Salesperson of the Year (Mandi)
- ✓Read the Bible in one year (Mandi)
- Celebrate our 25th anniversary
- Celebrate our 50th anniversary
- ✓Pay cash for a vehicle
- Wake up on New Year’s morning in a tropical destination
- ✓Graduate with a Bachelor’s Degree (Mandi – BS Biochemistry)
- ✓Become a certified Group Fitness Instructor (Mandi)
Just For Fun
- ✓Go white water rafting (CO)
- ✓Snorkel with Sea Turtles
- ✓Ride a Segway (Mark)
- ✓Snuba (Cozumel)
- ✓Swim with dolphins (Isla Mujeres)
- ✓Sing National Anthem at sporting event (definitely Mandi, at a 5k)
- ✓Go to Hawaiian Luau
- ✓Go ziplining (Hawaii, CO)
- ✓Go sled dog mushing (Steamboat Springs, CO)
- ✓Plant a garden
- Attend concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater
- Go to a TV taping of game show
- ✓Walk on a glacier
- Go on a hot air balloon ride
- Go ATVing in the sand dunes
- Take a gondola ride
- ✓Stand Up Paddleboarding (Coeur d’Alene)
- ✓Go cave tubing (Belize)
- Take a tour of a NASCAR team shop
- ✓Release baby turtles into the ocean (Puerto Vallarta)
- ✓✓Ride a tandem bike together
- ✓Horseback ride on beach (Honduras)
- ✓Go for helicopter ride (over gold mines in CO)
- ✓Whale watching (Boston)
- ✓Take a cruise
- Cruise in a balcony room
- Don’t drink soda for one year
- Don’t eat out for one month
- Six pack abs (belly laugh)
- Turn off electronics for one week
- Master knot tying
- ✓Build high performance engine (Mark)
- ✓Build a travel blog (Mark)
- Master taking pictures in manual mode
- ✓Go backpacking
- ✓Go snowshoeing
- Snowshoe in to a hut
- Build an igloo/snow cave
- Sleep in a castle
- See a manatee in the wild
- ✓Kayak in a bioluminescent bay (Fajardo Bay, Puerto Rico)
- Eat fresh cheese curds
- ✓Hike a 14er(Handies, Pikes Peak)
- ✓Learn how to Pressure can (Mandi)
- ✓Learn to waterski
- ✓Learn to slalom/one ski (Mandi)
- Successfully complete a slalom course
- ✓Learn to kneeboard
- ✓Learn to wakeboard
- ✓Learn to wakesurf (Mandi)
- See Wicked at the Gershwin Theatre
- Go parasailing
- Go clamming
- Learn flyfishing (Mark)
- Build an ice cave
- Get a photograph published
- Write a book and publish it
- Eat lobster in Maine
Scuba Diving (Mandi)
- ✓Get Dive Certified
- ✓Scuba dive with turtles
- ✓Scuba dive with shark (Cozumel)
- Scuba dive with dolphins…in the wild
- Scuba dive with whale shark
- ✓Hear whales sing underwater (Hawaii)
- Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
- ✓Scuba dive Belize
- Vacation on a live aboard
Sporting Events
- ✓Attend an NHL game (CO Avalanche)
- ✓Attend an MLB game (CO Rockies)
- Attend an NFL game
- Attend Pittsburgh Steelers game
- Attend an NBA game (Mark – Chicago Bulls)
- Attend NASCAR Bristol night race
- Attend NASCAR Daytona 500
- ✓Attend an Olympic event (Mandi – 1984 Track and Field, 2008 Table Tennis, Modern Pentathlon, Athletics, Baseball, Flatwater Kayaking)
Hunting (Mark)
- ✓Learn to shoot a gun
- ✓Shoot turkey with shotgun
- ✓Kill 2 turkeys with one shot
- ✓Shoot deer with rifle
- Shoot bull elk with rifle
- Shoot elk with bow
- Shoot deer with bow
- Shoot turkey with bow
- ✓Learn how to process (butcher) a game animal (Mandi)
Fitness Goals (Mandi)
- ✓Complete a triathlon (Mandi – Olympic distance in Boulder 2016, 2016, CO, Mark – Indoor Tri in CO 2016)
- ✓Run a marathon (Colorado Marathon 2014, 2015)
- ✓Run the Pikes Peak Ascent (2014)
- Podium a race
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